The Edinburgh Fringe festival is a magificent, huge, sprawling beast. But with over 2,400 shows ( mostly comedy nowadays) how do you choose? Reviews, you-tube clips, awards, venues, cost etc? Well, this reviewer decided to go down the lesser used route of accompanying a friend to see the daughter of someone she works with. It may not work for everyone but it worked for me.
Venues this year finally seem to have discovered that not suffocating your audience in sweltering conditions helps to keep the laughs coming. But the unexpected appearance of a fan on my seat was a welcome bonus.
Jessica Fostekew then bounded on stage to explain why she had named her show "Luxury Tramp". We are in familiar self-annecdotal territory though she quickly pointed out this was not a show about lady parts and food, nicely referencing but not naming this year's Queen of Edinburgh.
Instead we heard how her attempts to try & please all the people all the time led her into therapy " not just for mental people". We got to meet more of her family, literally as her Nana was in the audience, ensuring any potentially raunchy material was whispered or mouthed. We learned about her street-savvy young nephew who would only get involved in the show for £2000 and her mother who on discovering an unexpected teen-age smoochy party had occurred in her house threw out the testosterone fuelled youths while offering them lifts home.
This amusing show also contained my favourite line of the week ( impressive as I watched 41 shows) regarding a kebab. To hear it complete you need to rush to buy a ticket.
It was good to see Jesscia Fostekew effortlessly fill an hour's material alone after seeing her with Dan Thompson in " Pecker and Foosh save the world " as part of the Free Fringe in 2009.
Good fun and this hot reviewer got a free fan!
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